Food & Beverage Manufacturing

Lines fed. Pallets packed. Floors audit-ready.

Move product, feed lines, and keep floors audit-ready.

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No. 01Your world

Food and beverage plants rent AMRs, cobots, and floor-cleaning robots from Service Robot Co. AMRs move ingredients and finished goods between lines and storage, cobots handle repetitive packing, and scrubbers keep floors audit-ready. We deploy, service, and back up every unit, across all 50 US states.

A collaborative robot arm palletizing cases
End of line
No. 02The shift

A shift in your plant

From first shift to sanitation window, here is where the repetitive work automates.

  1. Stage 01

    First shift start

    Ingredients stage out from coolers and storage to the lines.

    What the robot takes

    AMRs run the ingredient moves so the line starts full.

  2. Stage 02

    Line feed

    Material keeps moving between lines, coolers, and docks all shift.

    What the robot takes

    The robots carry the repeat routes; people handle the changeovers.

  3. Stage 03

    End of line

    Cases get packed and pallets get stacked, hour after hour.

    What the robot takes

    A palletizing cobot takes the heavy, repetitive stacking.

  4. Stage 04

    Sanitation window

    Floors have to come back to audit standard before the next run.

    What the robot takes

    A scrubber runs a consistent mechanical pass instead of a rushed manual one.

  5. Stage 05

    Audit day

    The floor gets judged against the standard, unannounced.

    What the robot takes

    The same mapped pass every night keeps the floor inspection-ready.

Field notes

Cited industry data · no house numbers

1.9M

US manufacturing jobs projected unfilled by 2033.

Deloitte & The Manufacturing Institute, 2024

18.9%

Annual cobot market growth through 2030.

MarketsandMarkets, 2026

$5.7B

The cobot market by 2031, roughly triple today.

Mordor Intelligence, 2026

No. 03The crew

The crew that works here.

Each one rented, deployed, serviced, and backed up by us.

See the lineup
  1. An autonomous mobile robot moving materials in a warehouse aisleAutonomous mobile robotsAMRs that move pallets, totes, and carts across a warehouse floor.
  2. A collaborative robot arm palletizing boxes on a production lineCobotsCollaborative arms for machine tending, packing, and repetitive tasks.
  3. An autonomous floor-scrubbing robot cleaning a warehouse floorCleaning robotsAutonomous floor scrubbers and vacuums for large commercial spaces.
  4. And moreThe full lineup, from scrubbers to humanoids, every one serviced nationwide.
No. 04The site survey

What decides whether it works.

The things we check on a walkthrough, before anyone talks about robots.

  1. 01
    A compact sweeper working a staging floor on the night shift

    The dock and staging floor

    Ingredients land at the dock and stage out to the lines. The floor between takes constant traffic, and a sweeper holds it between shifts.

  2. 02
    A collaborative robot arm keeping pace with a line

    The line rate

    A cobot has to keep pace with the line. We confirm cycle rates on site before the rental.

  3. 03
    A floor scrubber working a production-plant floor near the line

    The sanitation window

    Floors come back to audit standard between runs. The mechanical pass has to fit the window.

No. 05Up close

A closer look.

A compact sweeper working an indoor growing hall

The work that eats the week

The repetitive, physical, hard-to-staff ground in food & beverage manufacturing. This is what a robot takes.

  • Ingredient and finished-goods moves between lines, coolers, and docks eat labor every shift.
  • End-of-line packing and palletizing are repetitive jobs that strain a crew and suit an arm.
  • Floors face daily audits, and consistent mechanical scrubbing beats a rushed manual pass.
No. 06The cost picture

Rent it, or buy it yourself.

Production lines change and seasons swing. Rent the robots monthly, scale for peak pack-outs, and hand back what the slow season does not need. Service and backup units are on us.

Rent from us

One cost. We carry the machine, the service, and the spare.

  • Upfront cost

    One predictable monthly rental.

  • Maintenance

    Included. We service it and carry the parts.

  • When it breaks

    We swap in a backup unit and you keep your schedule.

  • Scaling

    Add units for the busy months, hand them back after.

  • Who owns the risk

    We own the machine, the service, and the downtime.

Buy it yourself

The machine is yours. So is everything after.

  • Upfront cost

    $4-50k per machine, before it does a day of work.

  • Maintenance

    Your team, or a service contract you manage.

  • When it breaks

    You lose the time while it waits on a fix.

  • Scaling

    Idle hardware on the books in the slow season.

  • Who owns the risk

    All of it sits on your side of the ledger.

Ranges are publicly-reported market figures, not quotes. We confirm the real number for your site in a quote.

Want the full math? The robot pricing & RaaS guide has real ranges by robot type and the rent-vs-buy breakdown.

Support & service

Service nationwide.

All 50US states covered
<10 min24/7 tech support
Regionalservice engineers in all 50 states
24/7emergency response
  • 24-hour nationwide on-site dispatch.
  • 10-minute remote triage during business hours.
No. 07On site

Where you'll see it working.

A collaborative robot arm palletizing cases
End of line
An autonomous mobile robot on a production floor
Line feed
A robot moving material across a plant floor
Plant floor
Environmental sensor above a kitchen prep line
Prep line
Floor scrubber working a back stockroom aisle
Back of house
Climate sensor among greenhouse plants
Greenhouse
Floor scrubber cleaning a cold-storage facility dock in the morning
Cold-storage dock
A wall-mounted security sensor placed on the wall and door of the back room
Back-room sensors
A wall-mounted security sensor plugged into the outlet above the baseboard
Outlet sensor
A floor-cleaning robot working a high-bay distribution-warehouse aisle in the early evening
High-bay aisle
A security camera wall-mounted high overlooking the production floor
Production floor
A floor-cleaning robot cleaning the concrete of an auto-assembly plant near the line
Plant floor
No. 08Proof

Deployments we can point to.

Workers handle tea products and cartons inside a busy packing facility.Lead case study30% operator workload freedTea Plant Automates 30% of Operators’ Former WorkloadSee how a 400-person tea-packing plant automated palletizing, freed 30% of operator workload, and moved about 1,100 boxes per eight-hour shift.Read the case study
  1. Food Manufacturing Case Study: Four Operators Reallocated at End of LineA Pacific Northwest grain foods plant used a palletizing cobot in a tight end-of-line cell, freeing up four operators across a 24-hour operation.4 operators Freed up across shifts
  2. Meat Processing Case Study: 19% Higher OEE With Palletizing CobotsA 300-employee pork processing plant lifted OEE 19% and cut employee lifting 50% after adding palletizing cobots at end of line.19% OEE increase
No. 09From our blog

Reading for the decision you are making.

All articles
Industry newsWhat A3's Q2 2026 Order Mix Means for Food PlantsA3 says food and consumer-goods robot orders rose 18% in Q2 2026. See which plant applications are becoming mainstream and how to time a rollout.Trends & dataHigh-Speed Cobots Change Mid-Line Packaging MathFaster, higher-payload cobots are changing end-of-line packaging economics for mid-sized manufacturers, but only in the right throughput band.Buyer guideA Glossary of Must-Know Robotics Terms for Facility ManagersUnderstand key robotics terms like AMR, LiDAR, and SLAM. This glossary helps facility managers talk intelligently with vendors and choose the right automation.Trends & dataGartner's 2026 Agentic Automation Forecast: What It Means for Your BusinessGartner's 'Predicts 2026' report signals a new era of 'Agentic Automation.' Learn what this shift to multi-robot collaboration means for your facility.

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